Shortly after singing songs that highlighted the bank’s corrupt financial interest in coal extraction organizations using mountaintop removal, Talen was arrested, charged, and faced up to three months in jail.

Thanks to some confusion about whether or not the building was closed to the public on that day, Talen was found not guilty this month. His attorney Wylie Stecklow commented, “Reverend Billy enjoyed support from Occupy Wall Street, as the message remains the same: Corporate domination of our political elections and legislative branches, millions of dollars spent in lobbying to influence deregulation, must end. Living, breathing people must be given a voice in our participatory democracy.”

Actively involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement, many of those in Reverend Billy’s community are demanding that corporations follow through with their environmental policies, and they also vow to continue pressuring corporations to include communities in their decision making process.

“Mountain Top Removal is killing people in Appalachia and destroying one of the most glorious and biodiverse regions in the world. Today I witnessed a judge do the right thing, he heard the arguments and honored his conscience. The spirit of the 99% is rising,” Talen wrote.